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Quick way to transform your data without using formulas

Sometimes, especially when you work with a lot of data, you need to transform it. If you need to convert some range of data by dividing or multiplying it, it can be done in Excel in two clicks:

Change the default font for text boxes in Excel

When you create a text box in your document Excel, any text you type appears has the default font that can be different from version to version...

How to change flowchart connector or flowline

Most process flow diagrams and workflow charts use elbow connectors for connecting process stages and elements, but too many connecting lines of the same type give your chart a messy look. Fortunately, you can combine different connector types that represent semantically different transitions.

How to add text to the flowchart connector or flowline

When you create the process flow chart, process map, business flow diagram or data flow diagrams, and UML activity diagrams, you often need to add some text or labels to the connectors. Unlike other free and commercial diagram drawing packages, Microsoft Office shapes provide extremely rich text formatting features.

How to change format for diagram shapes in Excel

The Format tab of the Drawing Tools toolbar provides a plenty of options for customizing a shape outline, background, and text settings. Also, you can change spacing and size for multiple shapes at once.

How to make your data changes in the chart more informative

Simple line and bar charts often attract little or no interest in the audience. Still, Excel allows you to attract attention to your data by emphasizing change direction, difference, or period.

Improve axes format in Excel

Very few Excel users pay attention to the chart axes, but there are some tricks with axes that will help you to improve your visualizations with little or no efforts.

Useful Excel features to work with a lot of data

If you have a lot of data, manual editing and formatting of cells isn't an option anymore. However, Excel provides you many group operations that make those manipulations quick and easy.

Four ways to improve your data presentation in Excel

Using simple tricks, you can convert your Excel spreadsheet from a table with rows and columns to an interactive application that will help you to represent the data more appealingly and conveniently.

The best way to organize your workbook using hyperlinks

For some workbooks with a large number of sheets or to highlighting some important data, it is necessary to create hyperlinks to another cell in the same spreadsheet.